All the people panic buying petrol

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Are fucking selfish, and will be the first to moan when they're takeaway can't be delivered, they can't get a taxi, or places are short staffed as people CAN'T GET TO WORK

god I'm pissed off

@Mamamia7962

Redtoothbrush - Was there a fuel shortage 9 years ago? I don't remember that, must have been asleep. I remember the blockades of 20 years ago.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_Kingdom_fuel_crisis

This was the last crisis.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_protests_in_the_United_Kingdom
One before that.

Keeps happening.

No resolution nor planning to prevent it happening again.

@Lockheart

Everyone always has an excuse for why they need to go and fill up with petrol now, even if they wouldn't normally be doing so.

If you're doing it because you're actually low on petrol, that's fine.

If you're doing it because you're panicked there won't be any when you do need it, that's panic buying and not fine and you're contributing to the problem.

The queues outside the petrol stations are abnormal. We don't see this on a regular day with regular demand.

People aren't filling up because they really need to, they're filling up because they're worried - panic buying.

Posters will keep saying "oh I'm not panic buying I just really need to do X Y and Z and I'm worried there won't be any fuel".

Totally oblivious.

Exactly, if you need fuel go and get it but these well I best get some as who knows when I’ll be able to get it again and I have to go to work are but then condemning someone for getting a Jerry can . Yeah you have to go to work but if you wouldn’t of got fuel today but did just in case you are adding to the problem. You’ll be the first to complain that the ambulance / police / fire engine couldn’t get to you or the bins can’t get emptied. The teachers can’t get to work . You can’t get certain items from the shops . All those require people to get to work and then there is the people that make / pack / order the items . But hey as long as you have enough fuel to last you it doesn’t matter about anyone else does it .

Well those filling up jerrycans and stashing them at home better hope a fire doesn't break out! Doubt home insurance will cover it since its illegal to hold more than 30 litres of fuel at home.

@TurquoiseBaubles

Fucking hell this thread is agist.

Old people worry. They particularly worry about not being able to get help.

OK, we all need to get to work/school. But if we can't understand the flat panic of an 80 year old with no petrol in their car, then we need to rethink a bit.

Heard someone earlier saying "well they wanted Brexit, they got what they wanted".

It's dehumanising people.

@Imnothereforthedrama. I didn't need fuel today but I do need it for next week and yesterday all of the petrol stations near me ran out of diesel. I need to get to work and don't want the stress of finding fuel when I'm running on fumes on Monday, so if that makes me selfish I'll live with that. So sick of keyboard warriors on their high horse.

[quote hangrylady]@Imnothereforthedrama. I didn't need fuel today but I do need it for next week and yesterday all of the petrol stations near me ran out of diesel. I need to get to work and don't want the stress of finding fuel when I'm running on fumes on Monday, so if that makes me selfish I'll live with that. So sick of keyboard warriors on their high horse.[/quote]
Didn’t say you were selfish just saying you were adding to the problem. We all need petrol for work we don’t all need to go out on the same day to get it .

It's human nature IMO. People know they shouldn't contribute to the wider problem, but they think "well what difference will little old me make, and I need to be sure I have petrol for Monday".

That said, queues up the road near me. I'll be using the pump at work and paying back my boss for next few weeks I think.

@OhWhyNot

But many can work from home

We know this from the past 18 months less now but still a large number can

Many of us can but many of us have asshole bosses that demand us all in for no good reason now.

If teachers can’t get petrol, it’s home schooling again!

@simitra

As usual you can blame the red tops and their moronic consumers who have the average reading age of 11.

Imagine still buying an English tabloid newspaper in 2021.

@Dillyjones72

‘ I think people can do without mowing their flippin lawns when there is a shortage of petrol. Or borrow an electric mower if it must absolutely be done.

I think people who make a living from mowing other people's lawns would disagree with you.’

Ah of course, yes. The million of people who work mowing lawns with petrol mowers. Forgot about them…

My elderly next door neighbour has a gardener every week. He cuts her lawns with a petrol mower. She's 91 so, surprise, surprise, can't maintain her own garden - too frail. Most professional gardeners use petrol mowers. I have a relative, and an acquaintance, who are self-employed gardeners, and who use petrol mowers. And they are just people I know of personally. If they can't get petrol, they can't work, ergo, don't get paid. You could have realised this before you spoke with childish sarcasm.

@AlexaShutUp I wish ours would do something two road in both blocked and not one staff member

Why were lessons not learned?

Perhaps because it's easier for those concerned to parrot a silly phrase than to actually take any sort of responsibility, and responsibility seems to be a dirty word these days

Trouble is, that also applies to the sort who go off on one because of every clickbait story they come across - whatever happened to common sense and restraint?

@Parker231 - it's also a possibility in rural areas, if bus depots haven't had their fuel deliveries, that students won't be able to get to school either.

Yanbu,the greed and self centeredness is staggering.
A friend is waiting for a call for a life saving operation to a hospital two hours drive away.she's got 1/4 of a tank of fuel.all local fuel stations are shut.
There will be thousands of vulnerable people put at risk due to this idiocy.
If you are one of them and reading this,do you feel any shame for risking people's lives with your selfishness?

YANBU, I filled up 2 days ago before I knew anything about a shortage, but my tank was close to empty so won't need to fill up again for a while. Partner might need to for work, but if he can't he can use my car and it'll hopefully last until the idiocy stops.

I have just 2 bars of diesel. It may last me until around Wednesday to get my children to school and then me to work. I usually wait until my car say fuel too low (1 bar) to fill up. I will wait until Tuesday to see if I can get fuel as I don't want to add to the problem.

I can't say it doesn't make me nervous. If I can't get fuel I will have to walk an hour to school and then another half an hour to work and repeat it to get home, every day until I can re-fill. Not looking forward to it.

Why the media had to report BP I don't know. It wasn't a lot of stations in the big picture. Humans are stupid. They create their own problems then blame everyone else. Had everyone just carried on as normal, no one would be the wiser and we'd have enough fuel for our normal use.

Are you limiting how much people can buy? Some are putting a £30 limit on fuel which seems fair. That way more people have a chance to get to work for the coming week. Don't the emergency services fuel up at petrol stations too? What happens then; surely they get priority?

A big problem is parts of London (and elsewhere) traffic grinding to a halt because roads are getting blocked by queues, just walked past this

On Twitter the Chair of the Petrol Retailers Association says it is going to get worse before it gets better - Ie a) new visas only a small number of total requirement b) it isn’t a fast acting remedy because c) isn’t how the market works. many drivers will be booked up already, won’t necessarily want to return as a result of greater post Brexit bureaucracy in UK vs other European states

@MarshaBradyo

A big problem is parts of London (and elsewhere) traffic grinding to a halt because roads are getting blocked by queues, just walked past this

That's crazy. London must have the best public transport connections in the country.

The media causes all these fucking disasters and it’s always us in the retail sector who have to deal with it. First it was the mass buying of toilet rolls and beans, now it’s fuel.

There isn’t a fuel shortage. There’s a shortage of drivers. This isn’t an issue where I live (in the UK but not England) because our fuel drivers work on a self employed basis and are all trained properly. They’ve been in these jobs for years and aren’t just going to pack them in now. Hence we have no shortages (in fact, one of our fuel suppliers (global name) actually overestimated how much fuel shops would need and had to go around to various different sites to empty the lorry because they had a technical issue with the monitoring system).

I also think a lot of people misunderstand how much fuel it actually takes to fill a vehicle. Capping fuel fills at £30 is fine for a car, but some HGVs take upwards of £500 worth for a fill. If you cap fuel it doesn’t fix issues. It just means more lorries can’t deliver other goods, so this has a lead on effect across all sectors.

The media have a lot to answer for.

I've finally seen my new leccy bill. If i had electric car, I wouldn't really be laughing either.

We have an electric car too. It's fab and our electric bills have gone down as we changed companies and tariffs to a special EC bill

@scottish83

I'm sure there is a very fine line between panic buying, and planning ahead based on the information currently available.

Absolutely this.

Think that the selfish ones are the people filling up petrol cans in addition to their cars

@BrizzleMaverick

I needed to stop for petrol this morning I got to Asda and they were queues out the forecourt, I thought "what's going on have they priced it really low?" I went to the next petrol station same thing, although I had to queue as only had 4 miles of petrol left and wouldn't have made it to my destination. Only when I got home and told DH did he inform me about the whole situation. This is what happens when you don't read the news 🤣🙈

When I started reading your post, I thought "oh she hasn't seen the news"....you then ended up the post by saying you don't ever read the news. Why on Earth would you not want to keep abreast of news and current affairs?